🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:12:41 +1100, "Nige" <post@it.in.thegroup>
wrote:

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>"Alan Rutlidge .iinet.net.au>" <rutlidge@<No_Spam> wrote in message
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>> The alternative might be to approach a digital scanning lab for a quote.
>> With such a high number of negs to scan professional drum scanning might
>be
>> the better option.  I'm thinking not only the cost of a good film scanner

My LS5000 ED with the bulk feeder didn't cost a fraction of what it
would have run to have over 20,000 slides and negatives scanned.

>> but the time to scan them involved.  Of course if personal time isn't an
>> issue I suppose doing them by hand is entirely feasible and economical.
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>yep, worth the exercise to know what it would cost to compare against the
>cost of buying something(s) and doing it yourself.
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I have a film/negative capable flat bed (HP 5470c) and a dedicated
slide/film scanner with the bulk feeder (Nikon LS 5000 ED).

Having slides and or negatives scanned runs a good 50 cents each
locally.  Some places run closer to a dollar.  Either figure makes
having more than a few scanned quite expensive, but as Nige says,
scanning is very time consuming. It's time consuming even with the
bulk feeder.  Then you get to edit/process them, develop some sort of
naming convention, and figure out what to use for a storage medium. 

http://www.rogerhalstead.com/scanning.htm might help a bit.
It covers a good part of the decision making involved in scanning a
lot of images.

>>  Having scanned both transparencies
>> and negative on a flatbed scanner with a proper film adapter unit I can
>> assure you it is a time consuming and tedious process I'd rather not have

Although my HP does a reasonable job on slides and negatives, it comes
up far short of the quality in the LS5000 ED, so I'd use the flat bed
for that type of work only if the dedicated one had quit working.

I started a project of scanning "the old family photos" last March.  I
have all the slides done and about 2000 negatives left to go (an
estimate).

I still have two large boxes of very old prints that range from
tintypes to the petrified cardboard.  Those boxes are at least 40#
each, maybe quite a bit more.

>to
>> do again.
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>agreed!  I've got thousands of scans done this way.. but they've been done
>over many years :)

I had about 8 to 10 thousand done on a small scanner.  I re scanned
those along with the rest after purchasing the LS5000 ED

When working on a batch I usually use the computer to work on
something else from web browsing to programming.  This lets me do the
scanning more conveniently. Maybe not as fast, but still, it involves
less work.

Good luck,

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
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>Cheers, Nige
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